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Serbian tennis star, Novak Djokovic, and American icon, Serena Williams, on Monday maintained their places at the top of the…
The 33-year-old American has won the last four Grand Slams, dating back to last year’s US Open, and if she defends her title at Flushing Meadows later this summer she will become the fourth woman to complete the calendar Grand Slam
The 33-year-old becomes the third player – male or female – to win 20 major singles titles.
WTA top 10 as of May 4 (previous ranking in parenthesis): 1. (1) Serena Williams, United States, 9,981 points 2. (2) Simona Halep, Romania, 7,755 3. (3) Maria Sharapova, Russia, 7,525 4. (4) Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, 6,060 5. (5) Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark, 4,790 6. (6) Eugenie Bouchard, Canada, 4,063 7. (7) Ana Ivanovic, Serbia, 4,000 8 (8) Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, 3,465 9. (9) Agnieszka Radwanska, Poland, 3,345 10.(11) Andrea Petkovic, Germany, 3,260.
Suarez Navarro made no inroads and lost a fifth successive defeat to the American
Australia’s Margaret Court holds the overall record of 24 grand slam singles titles, while Germany’s Steffi Graf won 22 titles in the Open era
Sharapova knows she must drastically improve to end her run of 13 straight defeats against the world number one
The number one seed won in 98 minutes to reach the quarter-finals, but her 36 unforced errors and 55 per cent serving accuracy showed Williams has much work to do
The world number one, who won her only Roland Garros title in 2002, came back from a break down in the decider and played some beautiful tennis to set up a semi-final meeting with Italian fifth seed Sara Errani
Azarenka, 23, lost her number one ranking to Williams earlier this year and had won only two of their previous 13 encounters
The visit of the Williams sisters is part of a two-nation tour that will see them play exhibition matches and train kids is aimed at promoting women’s rights